Chapter 125: Lingqi's Reliance

Not long after Kirito and the other left, Sachi also went to attend to matters in the shop, leaving only Lingyun and Lingqi in the large room.

After a moment of silence, Lingqi seemed to have made up her mind, reaching out to suddenly hug Lingyun's arm.

Lingyun was startled by this sudden move from Lingqi and looked at her beside him, feeling somewhat at a loss. Lingqi kept her head lowered, even the tips of her ears turning red, and Lingyun could even feel her body trembling slightly.

Feeling the two soft mounds pressing against his arm, ripples couldn't help but stir in Lingyun's heart; despite Lingqi usually being so reserved, she was actually quite well-endowed where it counted. However, he quickly sobered up—now was not the time to be thinking about such things; Lingqi was clearly in an abnormal state!

"Lingqi, what's wrong?" Lingyun asked softly, while simultaneously trying to pull his arm out of Lingqi's embrace.

Sensing Lingyun's movement, Lingqi hurriedly tightened her arms. Lingyun struggled a few times, but ultimately ended in failure.

"Don't move, just let me hold you quietly for a moment!" Lingqi's voice was like the buzzing of a mosquito; if the room hadn't been quiet enough and Lingyun's hearing sharp enough, he would have barely heard her.

"Uh, what exactly is going on here?" Lingyun was truly at a loss regarding Lingqi's current change.

"Lingyun, you won't leave me, will you?" Lingqi asked in a muffled voice.

"Leave you? Why would I leave you?" Lingyun was even more confused.

"But, but, I am a bad person..." Lingqi's voice grew lower and lower.

"A bad person? Why do you say you are a bad person?"

"I had a dream before, I dreamed that I killed many people, and I was laughing crazily on the side, I, I..." Lingqi's body began to tremble.

"Killing people?" Lingyun narrowed his eyes. When he first met Lingqi, he had sensed a faint killing intent on her. But in the days that followed, it seemed that because of Lingqi's amnesia, that faint killing intent had vanished without a trace.

Later, when facing the Underworld King guards on the 20th floor, Lingqi had revealed her killing intent once more for certain reasons, and the killing intent displayed in that battle made even Lingyun look at her with surprise. After all, Lingyun could perceive that Lingqi was not very old, yet the killing intent on her was something many others could not compare to. However, although the killing intent that occasionally appeared on Lingqi was heavy, the Evil Energy on her was minimal; this at least proved that Lingqi had never wantonly slaughtered the innocent.

After experiencing that incident, Lingqi's personality seemed to have changed to a certain degree; although it wasn't particularly obvious, it was already slightly different from the beginning. But there was one point: Lingqi seemed to be becoming increasingly clingy toward Lingyun.

"Then do you know why you had to kill them?" Watching the trembling Lingqi, Lingyun couldn't help but pull her into his embrace.

"Why I had to kill them?" A trace of confusion flashed in Lingqi's eyes, and then she shook her head.

"Then, based on your own judgment, did those people you killed deserve to die?" Lingyun changed the question.

This time Lingqi hesitated. After pondering for a while, she said, "I think that among them, some did not deserve to die."

"And the rest?"

"They deserved to die!" A rare trace of killing intent flashed in Lingqi's eyes.

"Then there you go. The people you killed were all people who deserved to die. Eliminating evil is equivalent to doing good; you didn't do anything wrong, it's just that sometimes your methods might be a bit too intense." Lingyun freed one hand and smiled, patting Lingqi's head.

"Mm." Lingqi squinted her eyes and leaned into Lingyun's embrace. "Lingyun, don't leave me, okay?"

"Rest assured, as long as you don't choose to leave me, I will absolutely never abandon you!" Lingyun smiled and comforted her.

"Then, if I become another person in the future, will you still stay by my side, Lingyun?" Lingqi asked somewhat cautiously.

"Become another person? You mean, if you regain your memories, you might become someone else?" Lingyun frowned slightly.

Lingqi did not answer, only nodding slightly.

"As for that, it will depend on you then. If you want to leave me of your own accord, I will absolutely not stop you. If you don't want to leave me, then just stay by my side obediently," Lingyun said.

"Lingyun, do you know, I might have, accidentally, fallen in love with you." Lingqi's voice was very low, heard only by herself; even Lingyun did not hear clearly what she said.

Lingyun held Lingqi tighter. At this moment, he seemed to be able to feel the fragility hidden deep within Lingqi's heart and her reliance on him.

However, the two of them did not notice that a wisp of golden light seeped out from Lingyun's body and then burrowed into Lingqi's. The wisp of the Underworld King's power of the end, hidden extremely deep within Lingqi, seemed to undergo some unknown change under the fusion of this golden light. At the same time, wisps of black-red light emerged from within Lingqi and slowly fused with this power.

Deep within Lingqi's heart, a black shadow slowly emerged and then transformed into Lingqi's appearance. This black shadow seemed to have been awakened by Lingyun's power.

"Ara ara, I never thought I would have such a fragile day, and to have my defenses breached so easily by a boy I don't even know that well. Is this what they call love coming unexpectedly?" The corners of this Lingqi's mouth curled into an ambiguous smile. "I really want to know what kind of expression she will have when she sees me and understands her own identity!"

"Ugh, damn it, those guys are here again!" Suddenly, this Lingqi's expression changed slightly. In front of her, a wisp of grayish-white airflow slowly emerged and began to envelop her.

Just as Lingqi assumed a combat stance, another wisp of golden airflow suddenly rushed into this battlefield and intertwined with the grayish-white airflow. This suddenly appearing golden airflow seemed to possess powerful fusion properties, slowly devouring the grayish-white airflow.

"What is this power?" Lingqi looked at this golden airflow in astonishment. She had thought she was about to fall into a bitter battle, but this change had occurred instead.

"It seems there is nothing for me to do now. However, I am becoming more and more interested in this mysterious young man!" After saying this, Lingqi's body slowly submerged into a black shadow, leaving only the two forces to struggle in this void space.

"Master, Lingqi, what, what are you two doing!" Just as Lingqi was enjoying Lingyun's warm embrace, an exclamation came from the doorway.

Lingyun and Lingqi were both startled and looked up. Luo Yexi was standing at the door, looking at them with an expression of astonishment.

"Wuwah." Lingqi only now realized how ambiguous the posture of being held in Lingyun's arms was. Hearing her let out a cry of distress, her body quickly slipped out of Lingyun's embrace, and she immediately activated a Teleport Crystal, disappearing from the room.

"Master, can you explain to me what kind of situation that was just now?" A somewhat eerie smile appeared on Luo Yexi's face as she slowly approached Lingyun.

Looking at the black energy rising behind Luo Yexi, Lingyun felt a bit of a chill in his heart. He discovered, quite gloomily, that ever since he signed the Eternal Contract with Luo Yexi, his dignity as a master in front of her seemed to have flowed away like water in an eastward-flowing river, never to return.

"Cough, cough, Yexi, listen to me, the situation is like this." Before Luo Yexi could get close to him, Lingyun explained what had just happened in the shortest time possible.

"There is actually such a thing?" After hearing Lingyun's account, the black energy behind Luo Yexi instantly vanished into thin air. "It seems I will have to pay more attention to Lingqi in the future!"

At the same time, Luo Yexi was even more curious about Lingqi's identity. Who exactly was this beautiful girl that her master had picked up on the road?